House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten

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  • Architects: Rocha Tombal Architecten: Ana Rocha, Michel Tombal
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  239
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009
House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten - Facade, Windows

Text description provided by the architects. From a basic form, defined by the municipal urban plan, sculptural “eyes” emerge with direct views to the varied countryside landscape. The form and orientation of the building avoid visual contact with the adjacent houses: at the ground floor the angled ceiling of the kitchen accentuates the intensive contact with the garden. On the first floor, the different shaped openings in the roof and façade offer, like “fingers of light”, varied daylight experiences.

House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten - Sofa
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House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten - Bedroom

The routing through the house starts in the hall, a section of the ground floor volume. After experiencing the entrance area and passing the gigantic pivoted door, the visitor arrives at the “heart of the house”, the kitchen. Here he looks through the big glass wall straight into the garden, which suggests being outside again. Behind him, the stair cuts a wooden wall inviting to follow the route towards the first floor. Its angled form and extreme proportions (small and high) and the daylight entering from the ceiling, offer the feeling of walking in a medieval street.

House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten - Windows, Facade
House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten - Facade
House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten - Windows

At the end of it he discovers the living room, a quiet, north-lighted attic space, from which a big opening exposes the surrounding green like in a framed painting.

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Cite: "House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten" 05 Oct 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/36737/house-bierings-rocha-tombal-architecten> ISSN 0719-8884

House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten

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